Sentences with phrase «in modern crimes»

From the antiseptic comforts of suburban Indianapolis to the city's seamy underworld, David Levien introduces a private investigator as complex, idiosyncratic, and sympathetic as any in modern crime fiction.

Nunn's depiction of apartheid - era South Africa is atmospheric, and the multifaceted character of Cooper is unique in modern crime fiction.

Not exact matches

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Go inside a fascinating and disturbing crime story, set in one of the most lawless places on earth: our oceans, where perpetrators traffic in an illegal product and front - line workers are modern - day slaves.

The «modern technology services» discussed in the report point to cryptocurrencies and their usage to launder money derived from the illicit trade of firearms, drugs, human trafficking, and other organized crime.

However, in modern America, racial discrimination is immoral and unethical which is why we have hate crime laws in place and groups like the NAACP, SPLC, HRC and the ADL to combat that sort of hate.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: The crime of the modern sexual regime is that it robs Eros of its meaning and love of its grandeur.

The answers will touch on slavery, colonialism, modern day corruption, crime and drug addiction, the lack of equity in international development, human ignorance, greed, and many other things.

However, maybe someday when our governments can build modern transportation infrastructures, provide quality education for all of our children, hire enough judges to handle cases in a timely manner, control crime, and balance their budgets, then maybe they can start worrying about art museums.

Several highly publicized cases in the late 1980s (such as access to computer systems in Canada from New York or access to NATO information systems in Norway from the USA) have shown that «the prevention of computer crime is of great significance as business, administration and society depend to a high degree on the efficiency and security of modern information technology».

Also, when you sacrafice someone these days, in our «modern» times, make sure you sacrafice someone whose demise gives you and advantage in some way... usually stealing their lands or covering up some crime is a good reason.

And, in their midst, it makes small jabs at modernity's consequences: the «Modern Churchman» who «draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief,» the enlightened prison warden — «I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression,» and avant - garde architecture — «india - rubber fungi in the recessed conservatory,» a floor that is «a large kaleidoscope, set in motion by an electric button.»

At the end of June 2016, a number of Nobel laureates accused Greenpeace's campaign against Golden Rice as a «crime against humanity «and called upon governments around the world to «do everything in their power to oppose Greenpeace's actions and accelerate the access of farmers to all the tools of modern biology, especially seeds improved through biotechnology ``.

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

I would agree, it seems to me that employment is likely to lower the chances of poverty and crime, and modern western societies have placed a lot of value on being employed (or working in general, as in being self - employed or even owning and running a business - but most people still work regular old jobs).

The fabled crime writer was married to the distinguished Mesopotamologist Sir Max Mallowan, veteran of ancient sites such as Nimrud, Ur and Nineveh (Modern Mosul) in Iraq and Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in Syria.

To paraphrase R.A. Heinlein, every society in history limited the franchise to some effect - for example, most modern democratic societies restrict franchise from persons underage, or frequently persons convicted of crimes.

Her remit may be broad, but it also covers some of the most important tasks facing this government, including dealing with the knife crime epidemic, tackling modern slavery — a cause championed by Theresa May during her own time at the Home Office and in Downing Street — and leading on the forthcoming Domestic Abuse Bill.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill are scheduled to discuss the year - end crime data at a news conference Thursday, an event that will likely be highlighted by a number of superlatives: the lowest number of major felonies in the modern era of police record keeping, as well as 790 shootings, the fewest in recorded city history.

Since he was tapped by de Blasio to run the NYPD, Bratton's leadership has helped the city repeatedly notch record - low modern - era crime rates, and in June he predicted a continuation of that trend.

The fact that either of these two people would even show their faces in public is disgusting enough... we need legislation that no one that commits crimes can regain any office period... NYC and State are proof that government is a prop only... the rich run everything and have been perfecting modern slavery for years now... the middle class being the modern slave... that why these guys get in and cant wait to commit a crime for money!

If de Blasio's operation has committed crimes, New York is on the verge of a crisis unique in modern times.

But it needn't - a Civitas report, «Offender - Desistance Policing and the Sword of Damocles», by Cambridge criminologists, Lawrence Sherman and Peter Neyroud, looks at modern criminological theory and experience from around the globe - and how it can help stop a rise in crime at relatively low cost, if Mr Grayling puts it into practice.

«In this day and age, we need to be as sophisticated as the criminals are, using every tool we can,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who said the Internet has become «the new crime scene of the modern age.»

«While commending the officers and men of the Special Tactical Squad for the high level of professionalism displayed in the course of the operation, the IGP assures members of the Public that the force is being repositioned with modern crime fighting techniques to tackle crime and criminalities in the country», the statement said.

Some view him as one of the greatest police administrators in modern history who crafted strategies that drove down crime here in New York City and in other big cities across the nation.

The new culture secretary had a steady rise after entering parliament in 2010, becoming a whip and then taking two jobs in the Home Office under May: minister for modern slavery and organised crime, and minister for preventing abuse and exploitation.

«An initial amount of GH cents 800 million is being made available to procure and supply, within the next six months, critical, modern policing equipment and gadgets to enhance the capacity of the police to enforce law and order... In the medium to long - term, we will purchase drones and helicopters to assist the police combat violent and environmental crime.

He said the amount will be used for the procurement of modern policing equipment and gadgets including helicopters and drones to enhance the capacity of the service in dealing with crime in the country.

Another outside force has appeared, this one in the form of modern crime deterrent tactics.

He points out that detainees have not committed any crime, and says: «It is long past time for Australia to treat people seeking its protection in a manner commensurate with its status as a modern, democratic nation.»

In addition, Price took note of disturbing increases in crime and delinquency in young people ages twelve to twenty, and linked the increase to the physical and mental degeneration engendered by modern diets.In addition, Price took note of disturbing increases in crime and delinquency in young people ages twelve to twenty, and linked the increase to the physical and mental degeneration engendered by modern diets.in crime and delinquency in young people ages twelve to twenty, and linked the increase to the physical and mental degeneration engendered by modern diets.in young people ages twelve to twenty, and linked the increase to the physical and mental degeneration engendered by modern diets.11

I love, love books set in modern day Japan, especially crime ones — the local culture just provides such a fascinating twist to the «normal» American crime novels I usually read.

Taken together, they are a modern masterwork of crime cinema, with each half complementing the other in a completely absorbing and ingenious fashion.

«Green said he was inspired by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, the adventure stories of Poe, Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson, and modern crime stories like In Cold Blood,» Roger wrote.

Following the modern cult classic In Bruges, Martin McDonagh fully delivered on that film's vast promise with Seven Psychopaths — a fiery genre cocktail of crime & dark comedy.

Director Larry Clark («Kids») takes on another group of unruly individuals in this modern day «Bonnie & Clyde» tale about two sets of lovers who team up for a life of crime and one big heist.

His debut feature Crazy Heart was a rough look at a washed - up country singer; Out of the Furnace chronicled unforgiving life in modern day Appalachia; and Black Mass was an unflinching look at the crimes of Whitey Bulger.

Don't miss them as they work in a crime - ridden modern - day LA when it premieres on Wednesday (September 21)-- Watch the trailer below!

Directed by Academy Award - nominee Thomas McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT is a tense investigative thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest crime stories in modern times.

Godless was just one of two Bulgarian films about modern - day crime and corruption in the post-Soviet state, with the other, Slava (Glory), from Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, who had impressed with Urok (The Lesson, 2014).

Cash on Demand (UK, 1961)-- 7:00 PM Peter Cushing is a Scrooge of a bank manager in Cash on Demand (1961), a mix of heist film, crime thriller battle of wits and modern day A Christmas Carol.

The opening of Used Cars (1980) has the ominous, wind - scoured character of a modern crime film in a desperate southwest town where a Sergio Leone western wouldn't be out of place.

A new report says that Scoot McNairy, a modern «that guy» who you've likely seen in a dozen things over the past few years, has joined Oscar - winner Mahershala Ali, Selma star Carmen Ejogo, and e-cigarette salesman Stephen Dorff for the newest season of the divisive crime drama.

Directed by Academy Award - nominee Tom McCarthy, Spotlight is a tense investigative thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest crime stories in modern times.

But this time it's going to be different... In the modern world where the mafia doesn't command respect like it used to, «Capo» takes a look at what it would take for a modern crime organization to rise today.

The jury, of course, is too busy watching the 17 films in the main competition to follow some of the other sections such as «New Directors,» a complete retrospective of that whimsical purveyor of modern fairy tales, Jacques Demy, and «The American Way of Death,» a vast program of 40 crime movies from 1990 to 2011.

The BBC is cooking up something special for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that should please fans of their monster hit modern - day series Sherlock and Conan Doyle purists who prefer their crime fighting rooted firmly in 19th Century...

Beyond its description as a «modern - day noir crime thriller» set in LA, there's few details out there, but it should pique the interest of anyone who caught the writer - director's terrific 2014 genre piece.